F.G design is about the creative fusion of architectural systems, overall environment, life aesthetics, furnishings art, personality preference and artistic conception experience. F.G STUDIO doesn’t confine design to a certain style, but advocates creative fusion. The studio makes constant efforts in design exploration, and works to enhance spatial experience with people-oriented ideas and customized designs.
Soil House, designed by Tetro Arquitetura, is a place of disconnection and rest through intense contact with nature. For that, the implantation and circulation logic was inverted. In the apartment, they circulate from the social area to the intimate one in a closed corridor between two walls. At the house, they can go from one place to another along a path in the garden or, in the case of rainy days, under a canopy.
Kepler’s Utopia, designed by JG PHOENIX, is a multifunctional corporate space that serves for leisure, gatherings, working, and business negotiation. The spatial design is based on “seeking a tranquil world.” The overall space appears simple yet exquisite, affinitive yet rational, and full of imagination. It features minimalist design languages, incorporates the quintessence of local culture, and is full of emotions. This is a utopia that represents the infinite imagination about an ideal life.
JG Phoenix, otherwise known as Jingu Phoenix Space Planning Organization, is a Chinese design studio Ye Hui founded in 2008. They create spaces in line with Oriental humanism and hope to let people perceive Western logical thinking and the Oriental sentiment of conforming to nature. In addition, they emphasize the harmony among architecture, environment & humans, and strive to touch people’s hearts and enable the dialogue between mankind and nature via simple materials and “intangible” expressions.
Aráoz 967, designed by BAAG – Buenos Aires Arquitectura Grupal, is a residential building located in Villa Crespo, a low-density area with a strong neighborhood character. Araoz 967 aims to recover neighborhood-scale links, generate a sustainable habitat using materials and spatial configurations as resources and take on the challenge of densifying a developing area of the city respecting its neighborhood character.
Central Mansion Sales Center, designed by GFD, is based on black and white tones and conceives a contemporary context to present the local mountain and water landscape. The spatial layout combines solidness and void, the real and virtual, and the rhythmic circulation route enhances spatial experiences. The project creates a harmonious spatial rhythm and adopts contemporary design languages for deconstruction and reorganization, thereby creating a space full of local charm.
GFD is dedicated to working on the interior design of real estate projects, hotels, commercial spaces & upscale private residences. GFD emphasizes integrated design quality control, from spaces to furnishings, schemes to construction drawings. GFD established a branch company called QIANDU CASA, with a view to integrating prime design and product resources worldwide.
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Axel Springer Campus by OMA. Along with this, the weekly highlight contains a few of the best projects, published throughout the week. These selected projects represent the best content curated and shared by the team at ArchiDiaries.
Sticks & Stones, designed by Anna & Eugeni Bach, is an installation that appears light and removable due to its shape and the materials of its construction. While it presents the same shape as it occupies, in contrast to stonelike, heavy, and stable. After the experience, both spaces, stone & textile, heavy & light, vaulted & catenary, severe & festive, stereotomic & tectonic, overlap & allow for an understanding of the cellar that reflects both its reason for being and its opposite.
Caloundra Townhouses, designed by Jasper Brown Architects and Open Architecture, seeks to achieve a rich volumetric interplay of interior and exterior space. The beachside context of sand and surf has informed a refined material and colour palette, with natural earthy tones and crisp whites offset by highlights of ocean pastels. One of the primary design drivers for the four townhouses was an ambition that each one should be able to enjoy the spectacular southerly views towards the northern tip of Bribie Island.
Open Architecture is an architectural firm specializing in large-scale education, sport, cultural and mixed-use projects. The team takes pride in strong design sensibility and personal service, aiming to surpass our clients’ expectations with buildings that delight and surprise.
Jasper Brown Architects is a Brisbane-based practice that designs and delivers thoughtful and inspiring architecture. The majority of our work is in the residential, multi-residential, retail, and small commercial sectors. The residential architecture design is a particular focus in our work, and the goal of the compact, energy-efficient, cost-effective dwelling is a recurring preoccupation for the practice. Collaboration is a fundamental aspect of our working method and underpins much of what we do in our practice.
University Campus Izola, designed by Dekleva Gregoric Architects, had to be as permeable as possible, both in physical and visual terms, to enhance the contextual quality of connecting the green outskirts with the dense historical town center. The programs are distributed vertically from more public to less public, where lecture halls are set on the ground floor, seminar rooms, research labs, and offices above.
Kamala Café, designed by Studio Praxis, has a fluid play of nature and organic elements of architecture that interact and assemble a silhouette cast with yellow sandstone. The project is a self-sustaining facility nurtured through SEWA Foundation, supporting women across the city in the everyday economy to enhance their working and living conditions in India. The building recites a tale when it is perceived with delightful details of nature blending with the encircling crafted context.
Studio Praxis is a Design Practice concerned with developing architecture, interior, landscape, furniture, and product design solutions of consequence through the mediums of design, advocacy, research and documentation. While designing, our efforts are always to fulfill our clients’ functional, technical, and economic expectations, without compromising on our design solution’s innovative and aesthetic qualities.
Axel Springer Campus, designed by OMA, acts both as a symbol and a tool in this transition – a building to lure the elite of digital Bohemia in Germany. The essence of the design is a series of terraced floors that together form a ‘valley’ that creates an informal stage at the center – a place to broadcast ideas to other parts of the company. The design was developed around a series of terraced floors forming a digital valley. Halfway through the building, the valley is mirrored to generate a three-dimensional canopy.
Bonte café, designed by Yen Architecture, desires to bring nature into the project where people can touch with the light and wild nature. The buildings are covered by tall trees and low trees and have flowers, shrubs, and some types of vines. The team kept the color of concrete, timber, steel, and grindstone. They highly appreciate the local craftsmen who, although they don’t have modern machines, have great minds and hands, making the material’s surface emotional and attractive.
Yen Architecture aims at environmentally friendly solutions and connects people closer to nature. They respect the locality, local materials, and craft construction techniques with low environmental impact.
Winners of the competition Re-Nature Rome is announced which aimed to answer those questions with a particular focus on biodiversity in urban areas.
Café Camelon, designed by MVRDV and GRAS Arquitectos, unites three functions in a single space with a striking color gradient. The project combines a hotel lobby, restaurant, and retail showcase in the same space. The design uses carefully selected material details to create a color gradient, which serves as a strong visual motif to organize the interior. The main feature of the space is a single, 18-meter-long counter serving all three functions.
GRAS REYNÉS ARQUITECTOS covers a wide range of projects: from the creation of unique signature single-family villas to the construction of multi-family blocks, hotels, office buildings, housing renovation and urban planning. Although GRAS REYNÉS ARQUITECTOS is a young and growing firm, it has an interdisciplinary and international team that is committed to diversity. GRAS REYNÉS ARQUITECTOS stands out for its innovative solutions in harmony with the context, as well as for its bold and vanguard approach to design.
Prishtina Sports Hall, designed by ENOTA & OUD Architecture, is an elliptical traffic loop that runs around the bus station and defines the larger urban context. The proposal for the new sports hall maintains this relationship by positioning the building inside the elliptical traffic loop which maintains the bus station as the focus of the space. The arrangement of traffic and communication flows around the building is the main driver for the formal concept.
OUD is an architectural firm that draws its inspiration from travel and time, creating places at the crossroads of genres and eras.
Manhattan Wildscraper aimed to answer those questions with a particular focus on biodiversity and on the relationship between humans and nature.
